Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill [HL]

My Lords, Amendment 1 makes a very significant change to this Bill. In essence, it provides for a...

My Lords, first, I take the opportunity to thank the Minister, my noble friend Lady Jolly and oth...

My Lords, I rise to speak with some diffidence, it being nearly 60 years since I completed my own...

My Lords, I support the observations made by the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup. It is some...

I congratulate my noble friend on the amendments that have been proposed. As a former Legal Servi...

My Lords, I speak as chairman of the Association of Military Court Advocates—I declare an interes...

My Lords, following the Government’s defeats on this Bill in the other place, their initial react...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his typically calm and measured explanation of the amendments ...

My Lords, I thank noble and noble and gallant Lords for their general support for these amendment...

Perhaps I may ask the Minister to clarify the response that he gave to me on additional finances ...

My Lords, I stand to be corrected, but I think that the extra cost of £500,000 would have arisen ...

Does that mean that, if that was what was deemed necessary under the original Bill, no further mo...

My Lords, I need to check on this, but the message that I received was that everything would come...